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This grass creates movement along the route of the monorail, mirroring the movement of the monorail journey, and soft to touch as the children travel through. Wonderful, wispy, pale yellow-green leaves topped with fluffy plumes of silver-green flowers, maturing to blonde-buff. This versatile semi-evergreen grass is ideal for a sunny gravel garden, large container or new perennial border. It’s perfect for introducing movement into a planting scheme since the fluffy flower heads and foliage billow in the slightest breeze.

Planted along the monorail for scent as the children brush past, this plant also has a great combination of dark green foliage, dark stems and deep burgundy pink flowers. Useful for providing year-round groundcover at the front of the border, the dark green foliage of this decorative perennial takes on a purple flush during the colder weather. Throughout the summer, it is topped with mauve pink flower clusters.

Taxus baccata domes create structure and rhythm along the path journey to the Nest structure in the garden. Needle-like, dark green leaves on horizontal branches and fleshy, cup-shaped, bright-red autumn fruits on female plants. The dark green foliage of this slow-growing, evergreen conifer provides an excellent background for shrub and herbaceous borders. Broadly conical in shape, it's tolerant to dry shade, chalky and acid soils, and urban pollution. 

Allium ‘H²¹¾±°ù’ is chosen because it is quirky and playful in its structure. ‘H²¹¾±°ù’ is a clump-forming, bulbous perennial, to around 60cm tall, with grass-like, round, hollow leaves. In summer, dense flower umbels, up to 4cm across, are borne comprising purple centres from which emerge tendril or hair-like green extensions.

Sesleria autumnalis as a really useful structural fringe plant between sun and shade areas. Both easy to grow, and tolerant of a wide range of soil types and aspects, this evergreen grass is a valuable foil for large and small gardens alike. Unlike many other ornamental grasses, it is a cool-season grass that tends to put on new growth in autumn and spring, and dies back a little in the summer. 

Striking, burgundy flower spikes on long slender stems flower continuously from May to September. The attractive, crinkled rosettes of silver-green foliage are an excellent foil for the flowers, which are also highly attractive to butterflies. A versatile plant that can be short-lived, spreads slowly and performs best in a moist border in sun or partial shade, or it can be grown in a pot on the patio. It makes an excellent cut flower, too.